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| Author: Jennifer Block
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0738211664
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1982
EAN: 9780738211664
ASIN: 0738211664
Publication Date: April 7, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Pushovers? February 25, 2008
1 out of 78 found this review helpful
That's what the is author must think pregnant women are.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Pregnant women deserved top quality evidence based medicine. Not this uselss pap.
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care February 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a childbirth educator for many years, having gone thru the 70's "education explosion" and hearing the stories of how women regarded their 2nd or in some cases 3rd childbirth experience as a joy rather than a horror story, all because of education and knowing how to manage a natural, unmedicated childbirth, I loved this book. It puts into perspective what happened, an historic chronology of birth right up to the really bad place we are in today. I really appreciate and identify with the research and development that was put into making this accurate, readable and inspirational. I pray it is read and responded to by those who can initiate change.
Question the Establishment! January 31, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I loved this book for so many reasons. This book isn't "anti-hospital birth" or "anti-obstetric practice" as some reviews have made it seem. It simply strives to raise awareness regarding what is considered to be safe, acceptable, and good medical practice when most of those practices aren't evidence-based models. It leaves no grey area when revealing conclusions of multiple studies that show exactly why many hospital practices are not helpful, and in many cases, unwanted and unnecessary. It shows how our most common obstetric practices evolved and why and what we, as consumers, as parents, as women, should be asking and demanding be done differently.
As a doula, I loved this book because it truly reaffirms that birth is, 97% of the time, not a medical emergency - it is not a catastrophe that mother and/or baby must be rescued from. We are fighting nature by demanding that mothers be restricted in movement, spend most of their time in bed, be denied food and drink, and deny them the emotional support that most laboring women crave.
As a mother, I loved this book for many of the same reasons I loved it as a doula, but also because it doesn't BLAME the mothers, consumers, and women. You are supposed to trust your doctor, and if we didn't would anyone see them for anything? It's not about being anti-hospital, but making informed decisions and not being bullied or intimidated into making a decision the hospital feels is least likely to result in a lawsuit.
Some things in the book made me cry. Some things made me laugh. I couldn't believe that we're allowing these things to be done to women and their children. Overall, it broke my heart. It broke my heart that it needed to be written, but I am so glad it was. I would recommend this book to absolutely every person. It not only applies to mothers, women, and fathers, but every person who has ever felt that perhaps their medical care wasn't what it should be, or what they wanted. Truly, a jaw-dropping read. LOVED it.
Brilliant! January 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just finished reading this book and I was left feeling that Jennifer Block has hit all of the nails right on their heads. I have taught a childbirth education class and am a doula, and this book challenged my thinking on modern birth and what information I am giving out to women when I interact with them.
Block puts abuse of pregnant women and denied women's rights into the spotlight. Pregnancy and delivery today are really about women's rights at the very core. I was impressed beyond belief with the very last page of the book. It pulled everything together in such an unbelievably perfect way.
The facts presented in the book are what make it most impressive. Anybody who doesn't read this book is truly missing out.
Not everybody can let go of control and give it up to the women. Some think they can control women's decisions and tell them that they know what's best for them. I call that abuse. Once you read this book and understand it, you'll feel good honoring women's autonomy and choices in birth.
Great journalism January 1, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
If there's any justice, this book will win journalism awards and stand the test of time as a great piece of American muckraking. Smart, well-written, and fact-based while still full of elegant anecdotal storytelling, PUSHED is recommended reading for anyone who was ever born, and definitely for everyone might be giving birth sometime soon. Thoughtful and reasonable in presentation, the content within is downright radical. Outstanding work, very recommended reading. Thank you Jennifer Block. You've done many woman a great service by writing this book.
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